Sunday, 20 April 2025
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
When the weather is hot, where better to keep cool than MuseBlog’s monthly random thread?
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Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.
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Current topic: haircuts
favorite stores
crazy ways MBers decorate their rooms
Date: June 30, 2008
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Ideas, Life, The Universe, Things We like
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Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here. As always, we start this thread anew from scratch every month.
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Current categories:
ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Pieceful Pie Planet (Kokonilly, IBCF, MARFwarrior)
Ships’ Logs (IBCF, kiwimuncher)
Zemtee (HAWK)
Muse Scouts (AvalonGirl)
LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
Religion and Religions (Kokonilly, Logogeo96, MARFwarrior)
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, and Vegemite (Purple Panda, Midnight Fiddler)
SILLY FUN
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories (IBCF, Midnight Fiddler)
The Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
You know you’re addicted to X when you Y (Logogeo96)
Round Robin SSSS (Zinc the sorceress)
WRITING – RRRs
Terraformed (rewrite) (Alice)
SMASS-TT (Hypatia)
Alchemy RRR (Hypatia, kiwimuncher)
Etheterre (Alice)
WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Role-Playing Writing (the Empowered) (Alice)
Writing Challenge: Theme With Variations (Vixen)
OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Muse MuseBlog Chess (GAPA’s choice)
Visual Arts (Purple Panda)
History (Midnight Fiddler, Alice)
Science and Math, Including Space (Brendan the Science Whiz)
Music (Kari, Midnight Fiddler)
Books and Reading (Midnight Fiddler)
Coy Woodnesse (kiwimuncher)
USEFUL ITEMS
HG2MB v.2008.1
Last Month’s DFTT (Midnight Fiddler)
Known Muser birthdays this month:*
07-03 Kokonilly’s birthday (1996 – light blue/lime green)
07-04 Momothebrainlesspig’s birthday (1993 – purple)
07-05 Koko du Pelle’s birthday (1996 – purple)
07-05 shadowfire’s birthday (1996)
07-07 TNÖ’s birthday (1993 – green)
07-09 Lizzie’s birthday (1991)
07-13 Emogrl’s birthday (1989 – black)
07-14 Penguin’s birthday (1994 – color=?)
07-17 agagabagabag’s birthday (1994 – purple)
07-18 PurplishGlass’s birthday (1990 – turquoise)
07-18 Fortune Cell’s birthday (1992 – red)
07-19 La Mort, La Vie, L’Amour’s birthday (1992 – black, silver, and red)
07-21 Moo I’m a Cow’s birthday (1995 – color?)
07-22 Phoenix’s birthday (1992 – octarine)
07-22 IBCF’s birthday (1993)
07-25 Evie’s birthday (1995)
07-26 Agrrrfishi’s birthday (1994 – sky blue, navy, and bubblegum pink)
07-28 Anata~ChinTsu’s birthday (1992 – charcoal)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between October 24 and November 23, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between January 28 and February 27, 1992.
*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.
On Saturday, 28 June 2008, some unidentified suspicious-looking characters appeared on the Washington Mall.
Hmm. They appear to be Mostly Harmless…
…or not.
Also, Lady B. forgot to post this bit of documentation her Friday the 13th meeting with Red-tailed HAWK. In the background are HAWK’s famous gardens.
Midnight Fiddler reminded Rebecca of this idea when she (Midnight Fiddler) demonstrated her truly remarkable eyebrow maneuvers. (Lady B.’s own weird talent is more humble: crossing and uncrossing her toes.) What’s yours?
The monthly random thread sashays into its final installment as Bo contemplates whether hems taste better with a dip.
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The idyll continues from Part 8.
Date: May 11, 2008
Categories: Nonrandom Craziness, RRRs, RPWs, and RPGs, The Musiverse
Who’s your Muse?
Suggested by The Man For Aeiou, who describes it this way: “remember the feature from 2003ish in the mag? like that, only for Muses of us artist, writers, Etc. What’s POSOC’s Muse like? Who’s Alice’s? what about the rest of the MBers?”
Date: April 13, 2008
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Nonrandom Craziness, The Musiverse
Date: April 2, 2008
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Nonrandom Craziness, The Musiverse
The random thread theme that keeps on going….
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While attending a holiday gathering, Lady Bunniful admired some animal-themed headwear designed and created by Olivia, her honorary niece (and Muser-age friend). One might hope a woman of Lady B.’s years and experience, particularly in matters lagomorphic, would exercise caution in approaching any object bearing even the slightest resemblance to winsome, long-eared mammals of rosy hue. Dear Blogger, it grieves me to relate this was not the case at all. No sooner had she noticed the chapeau lapinesque but she clapped it upon her head, Urania save us, not stopping to consider the possible consequences of such an impulsive act. The fact that the hat was indeed exceedingly becoming should have served as further warning rather than the encouragement she took it to be. Folly, thy name is Bunniful.
Within moments her nose began to twitch; her facial muscles tightened; the whites of her eyes became more pronounced.
O dearest MuseBlogger, it distresses me greatly to think what sensations of agony must have twisted within her limbs and consciousness, as once begun, the horrific process known as *shudders violently* bunnification proceeded apace.
Thus might the brief, glorious career of our graphics GAPA have ended in a zombified glaze of hot pink, had not Olivia’s quick wits and leporidal-arts training come to the rescue. The valiant girl, overcoming the horror that would have rooted a lesser soul to the spot, leapt forward and snatched the hat from Lady Bunniful’s head.
Rebecca wishes it known she appears to be well on her way to full recovery and she in no way holds Olivia responsible for the events of Sunday afternoon; indeed, she maintains nothing but gratitude for the quick thinking that prevented certain tragedy.
An idea from Hypatia:
“Could we do something where we’re collectively writing the diary of some person, but we don’t plan anything about the person. They could be a historical figure or an ordinary teenager or an adult or a cow or a hot pink bunny. We’d just write entry after entry without consulting at all and see how the story went, with each person adding elements to the character.”
The event now sets sail for the history books, the photo albums, and bloglore. Reports thus far proclaim the meeting of our Washington State Kokonventioneers to be a success enjoyed by all.
Date: March 22, 2008
Categories: Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Kokonventions, Life, Sound and images
Yes, this is a day early, but Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon sent a card and may not be here on the 17th.
The plot progresses, as seen in the previous installment.
*Round Robin ‘Riting Sans Magic And Space-Time Travel
Suggested by Prarilius Canix, who pointed out “that the two sci-fi RRRs we had both had space travel, and the innumerable fantasy RRRs all had magic. I think it’s time to pull a Monty Python and say ‘And now for something completely different.’ I think that the writers on the blog (including me) might enjoy a challenge.”
Continued from Part 1.
For those of you who don’t know, Script Frenzy is NaNoWriMo’s younger sibling, specifically for scripts. This year its auspicious opening day is April 1st. For those of you who don’t know what NaNoWriMo is…that’s National Novel Writing Month.
